Tucker v. Commonwealth

OpiNion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Eees

Affirming.

Morton Tucker and Cecil Jarvis were convicted of the crime of unlawfully and knowingly receiving stolen property and were sentenced to a term of one year each, in the penitentiary.

It is first insisted on this appeal that the trial court erred in overruling their motion for a peremptory instruction on the ground that there was no evidence tending to show that they knew the property found in their possession had been stolen.

The facts are these:

On or about December 12, 1933, Joe Lane broke into a freight car of the Illinois Central Eailroad…